Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan spends $100,000 to $200,000 a year buying tokens to run AI agents.
On the podcast The Builders, Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan revealed that he spends between $100,000 and $200,000 annually on tokens for extensive work projects and coding tasks. He has also publicly shared a gstack of 23 Claude Code skills on GitHub, which allows his agent to read his emails, Dropbox files, and Apple Notes. He believes that for personal AI agents to reach the mainstream, costs must come down.
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